It had been 9 years since the last time I saw Soulfly, and 12 years almost to the day since the first (and only other) time I’d seen them, at Water Street no less. So I didn’t have any real expectations since it had been so long, and I further wondered about the show since roughly a week before, they made it free and I got a refund. I was pleasantly surprised to see how full the place was, so people obviously got the message. Didn’t really see Before The Foundation any, but Million Miles From Broadway were pretty good. They’re a local Rochester band, and one of the guitar players used to play in Hate Machine.

I meandered my way up front for Soulfly, and proceeded to have a great time. The setlist had a great mix over the entire catalog, the band was into it, Max was screaming his head off all night, and the crowd was good people too. No idiots, the moshers picked each other up, everyone that was there seemed to be pretty diehard. Not much to pick apart on this one, just a fun night of metal!

Setlist:
Blood Fire War Hate
Carved Inside
Bloodshed
Cannibal Holocaust
Prophecy
Back to the Primitive
Living Sacrifice
Master of Savagery
Tribe
Frontlines
We Gotta Know (Cro-Mags cover)
Porrada
Rise of the Fallen
No
Life (Napalm Death cover)
Encore:
Jumpdafuckup / Eye for an Eye